Candidate Channel

Background

Candidate Channel is a start-up. Its two founders have over 30 years experience of working in the Recruitment Industry. CC offers Fixed Fee recruitment aimed at SMEs with the unique bonus of optional Fee Insurance.

The Challenge

CC wanted to position itself aggressively in the market. They required a piece of software that would minimise the time to sort out CVs thus giving them a competitive advantage over their competitors.

“We didn’t want to use the standard recruitment package offerings that were out there as they were expensive and didn’t provide the functionality we needed.” – Leslie Dewhurst, Managing Director.

The Solution

• Logic Software has delivered a management system that helps the recruitment service sort through CVs.
• It dramatically reduces the time taken to produce ‘short lists’ by including Candidate Channel’s innovative ‘SmartSort’ process, continually constructing a candidate list with the most desirable CVs at the top and the least desirable ones towards the end.
• The software transforms recruitment, by using software to manage the CV-lite work flow, ‘SmartSort’ looks only at the skills someone needs to do the Job, nothing else.
• Therefore it’s entirely objective and doesn’t care about the name or the age of the candidate, helping eliminate the human bias that can creep into the recruitment process.
• This minimises the time to sort out CV’s for the recruitment firm, and allows them to track CVs more efficiently than a traditional recruiter, freeing up time to spend on hand-crafting short lists, managing candidate flow and working with their clients.
• Logic Software used Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with C# 3.0 and .Net 4 to develop its web-based solution, within an underlying Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database.

Here’s a link to the site – www.candidatechannel.co.uk

The Benefits

"Candidate Channel has benefited enormously from using the software written by Logic Software. The bespoke software development allows CC to manage the product offering and the complete Fixed Fee recruitment life cycle. The software has transformed recruitment and enables recruiters to work more efficiently and cuts down the time that they need to spend on a job."

As a result, it has enabled CC to position itself competitively in the market and gain competitive advantage in a highly demanding and client-focused market place.

“The software is at the forefront of the Fixed Fee industry and already is helping us to manage our work flow better. Logic Software responded quickly to our request and being a small company understood the pressures that a start-up is under. They were straight up, very responsive and always entirely customer focused” – Leslie Dewhurst, Managing Director.

Here’s a link to the site – www.candidatechannel.co.uk